Special Envoy of the Secretary-General

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Special Envoy of the Secretary-General (SESG) is a title used by certain United Nations officials who are appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to deal with specific issues.

Examples include the SESGs on HIV/AIDS in Africa, on LRA-affected areas, on indigenous people, to a specific country, et cetera. George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, was chosen by the UN to serve as the Special Envoy for South Asia in December 2005. Others include Bill Clinton (a former president of the United States), who was named the Special Envoy for Haiti in 2009,[1] and Gordon Brown (a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), who was named the Special Envoy for Global Education in July 2012.[2] For much of 2012, Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria. There are many other people of different backgrounds who serve the Secretary-General.

Current Special Envoys

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Personal Envoys

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  • María Angela Holguín Cuéllar (COL), Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General on Cyprus, appointed 2 March 2025.[9]
  • Staffan de Mistura (ITA), Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, appointed 6 October 2021.[10]
  • Template:Ill(CHE), Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Mozambique, appointed 8 July 2019.[11]

Former Special Envoys

Template:Main cat The UN has appointed a number of Special Envoys, including:

Name (Former) Title Date of Appointment
Michael Bloomberg Special Envoy for Climate Action | Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Cities and Climate Change 5 March 2018 | 31 January 2014[12]
Mark Carney United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance March 2020
Mahmoud Mohieldin Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda 4 February 2020[13]
Maria-Francesca Spatolisano Acting Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Technology March 2019
Christine Schraner Burgener Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar 28 April 2018
Martin Griffiths Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen 16 February 2018
Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility 20 June 2017[14]
Macharia Kamau and Mary Robinson Special Envoys of the Secretary-General for El Niño and Climate 20 May 2016[15]
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen 25 April 2015[16]
Said Djinnit Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region 17 July 2014[17]
Staffan de Mistura Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria 10 July 2014.[16]
Hiroute Guebre Sellassie Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel 30 April 2014[17]
Han Seung-soo Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water 19 December 2013[18]
Kofi Annan Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria 23 February 2012
Haile Menkerios Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan and South Sudan 29 July 2011[17]
Bill Clinton Special Envoy for Haiti May 2009[1]
George H. W. Bush Special Envoy for South Asia 30 December 2005[19]
Terje Rød-Larsen Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 3 January 2005[16]
Virendra Dayal Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for facilitating the Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa 1992[20]
George C. Marshall Special Envoy for negotiating the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalists (Kuomintang) into a unified government 1945[21]

See also

References

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External links

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